Color Blind- When Green becomes Red

9/9/11

***I've been meaning to write a piece about how people see what they want to, for quite some time now (I touched upon an aspect of this in the blog post titled Foreign Graduation). And I'll write more on this topic again. But today I was talking to a friend's mother and she got me thinking--this is a trap we fall into over, and over, and over, and over ( I could go on forever) again, yet we fail to recognize the vicious cycle. In high school, as we prepped for our AP Biology exam, my biology teacher's mantra to us for the essay portion of the exam was, "Don't answer the question you wish they had asked, but rather the one that is being asked." This advice can be extrapolated into our daily lives and is definitely something that I think about often--sometimes on exams, other times during them ;), or in my interactions with people. How many of you have put up with a lying friend even though deep down you knew they'd do it again, because you wanted to believe this was the last time, or they weren't lying to be mean? STOP what you are doing right now to take a second or two to assess your intentions and your feelings to help yourself better understand your desires, passions, and personal triggers. Without this periodic check, it's difficult to identify when the above situation occurs or when a person is unhealthy for you. And I'm super sleepy so this is all the editing that'll be done tonight. Goodnight! ***

Sometimes the heart knows
what the brain knows not
but once we know,
what we didn't know before
we use our minds to better understand
a matter of the heart.
Seems stupid doesn't it.